Industry Horizon is Futify's public foresight series. Each piece commits to specific, datable, falsifiable indicators for the next five years. Six months later, the next version grades the previous one — including the misses.
Revenue up 5.1%, headcount down 5.0% in a single year, yet no general price-level drop is visible. The open question for owner-CEOs is when the pricing umbrella breaks, at which tier — and what the firm looks like on the other side.
A senior developer paired with a frontier coding agent now produces enough working code to compete with a small team. The mid-tier service house was built on the opposite assumption.